According to Hurriyet Daily News, televangelist Mücahid Cihad Han was appearing on the TV station 2000 TV when a man rang the station to confess that despite being married, he kept masturbating – even during the holy pilgrimage to Mecca known as Umrah.
Forced to repeat the question several times to the confused preacher, he was eventually advised that the act was forbidden.
‘Moreover,’ Han said, ‘One [saying] states that those who have sexual intercourse with their hands will find their hands pregnant in the afterlife, complaining against them to God over its rights.
‘If our viewer was single, I could recommend he marry, but what can I say now?’